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HEPA filter

HEPA filter

HEPA filter

Product catalog summary
Overview
Microfiltrex, part of the Porvair Filtration Group, specializes in filtration solutions for the nuclear industry. The company is ISO 9001 certified and audited by NQA-1, ensuring high-quality standards. They have approvals from the CAA and MoD through their Aerospace and Defence division.

Quality and Standards
Quality is a central focus for Microfiltrex, crucial for safety-critical applications in the nuclear industry. Their solutions are trusted by clients in the UK, Europe, and the US.

Filtration Solutions
Microfiltrex provides solutions for various nuclear applications, including powder transport in fuel manufacturing, final grinding coolant, sintering furnace off-gas, disposable and cleanable filters for active liquors, fluidised bed venting, and spent fuel dry storage pre-processing.

Technological Innovations
The company uses a pulsed jet cleaning technique to minimize disposal volume and contain active powders, effective in high-temperature applications and helps recover contaminants that could blind HEPA filters.

Power Generation Sector
Microfiltrex filters are installed in all UK AGR and Magnox nuclear power stations, providing solutions for main coolant and auxiliary blowdown, spent fuel pond clean-up, SRV protection, turbine lubrication, iodine absorption, and spent fuel processing and packaging venting.

Waste Management
Microfiltrex is a leading supplier of waste, storage, and transport container vent filter/breathers, including TRUvent™ HEPA grade filter/breathers, screw and welded filter/breather plates, metallic HEPA grade filter elements, UK 500 litre waste drum filter/breathers, Pu packaging filter/breathers, high activity, long-term storage filter/breathers, and spent fuel dry store filter/breathers.

Specifications and Products
Microfiltrex offers HEPA grade filters, including the TRUvent™ filter/breathers with 99.97% removal efficiency at 0.3 microns, meeting TRUPACT-II SAR requirements, passing DOT Spec. 7A, and WIPP compliant. They also provide filter/breather plates, metallic HEPA filters, Carbofil cartridges, and cleanable pleated metal elements.

Applications and Techniques
Pulsed jet cleaning is used to separate carrier gas from solid contaminants, minimizing disposal volume and allowing for easy extraction of active powders. This technique is effective in high-temperature applications in fuel conversion and fabrication industries.

Technical Support
Microfiltrex provides on-site technical support and laboratory assistance, offering services like contamination analysis and advice on filter efficiencies and chemical compatibility.

Conclusion
Microfiltrex is a comprehensive solution provider for filtration issues in the nuclear industry, offering both standard and bespoke solutions to meet specific needs.
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Catalog excerpts

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The nuclear industry demands special standards of performance and quality. Filtration is often thebarrier between the environment and hazardous radiological or toxic processes. The need for confidence in the equipment containing the process must be absolute, and Microfiltrex has proved again and again, over many years, that the confidence vested in it by the nuclear industries of theUK, Europe and the USA is warranted. From coolant and blowdown filtration in powergeneration to fuel conversion off-gas clean-up, from reactor containment vent/SRV protection to waste packaging filter breathers, from...

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In power generation Microfiltrex filters are installed in all the UK AGR and Magnox community of nuclear power stations. From main coolant to auxiliary blowdown, spent fuel pond clean-up to SRV protection, turbine lubrication to iodine absorption, spent fuel processing to packaging venting; Microfiltrex has supplied effective and economic solutions to some of the most pressing concerns in thepower generation sector. As the foremost supplier of metallic and non-metallicspecial filtration equipment into the UK and European nuclear power generation industries, Microfiltrex can produce the solution...

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Microfiltrex is the pre-eminent supplier of waste,storage and transport container vent filter/breathers. Whether for the storage of plutonium oxide or the venting of hydrogen from LLW drums, the venting of off-gases from high activity waste containment or from vitrification glass pour, the HEPA grade, long life protection of spent fuel containers or the assurance ofHEPA quality filtration of the nitrogen blanket overliquid sodium, Microfiltrex has provided the engineered, optimised solution to specific and pressing needs. Microfiltrex products used in active waste management include: We have...

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fuel manufacture > Where high solids load, high temperature, chemical aggression, high disposal costs or long life are issues, Microfiltrex designs and supplies systems to separate the carrier gas from the solid contaminant, and by use of the Microfiltrex pulsed jet cleaning technique, to re-deliver the solids back to the user for disposal. Disposal volume is minimised, and active powdersare kept contained and controlled, available for easyextraction when necessary. The Microfiltrex pulsed jet system is also extremelyeffective in powder transport applications, when the carrier gas has to be vented...

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A Division of the Porvair Filtration Group Porvair Filtration Group Ltd. Fareham Industrial Park, Fareham, Hampshire PO16 8XG T: +44 (0)1329 285616F: +44 (0)1329 822442 T: +44 (0)1978 661144F: +44 (0)1978 664554 T: +44 (0)1425 612010F: +44 (0)1425 621886 T: +44 (0)1202 666456F: +44 (0)1202 685545T: +1 803 327 5008F: +1 803 327 1052 Microfiltrex, Fareham Industrial Park, Fareham, Hampshire PO16 8XG T: +44 (0)1329 285616F: +44 (0)1329 822442 T: +1 803 327 5008F: +1 803 327 1052 Porvair Technology, Clywedog Road South, Wrexham Ind Est, Wrexham LL13 9XSFilters for Industry, Queensway, Stem Lane,...

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